"Electric switch" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... met her on the threshold, staying the hand she raised to the electric switch. She moved slowly through the dying light to the window and stood before it motionless, gazing forth into the glory. It poured around her in a rosy splendour, lighting her pale, tired face. For several minutes she stood drinking in the beauty of ...
— The Keeper of the Door • Ethel M. Dell
... sounded in the hall, a quiet hand pressed the electric switch by the door, and the room was ...
— The Rocks of Valpre • Ethel May Dell
... as he spoke, like a flash of powder, as swiftly as one throws an electric switch, as blindingly as a train leaps from the tunnel into the glaring sun, the darkness vanished and the tug was swept by the fierce, blatant radiance of ...
— The Red Cross Girl • Richard Harding Davis
... The doctor says actually he believes she'd get well if he could find some way of letting her know the time at night, so she'd get some sleep; for she simply can't go to sleep till she knows. She can't bear a light in the room, and it wakes her all up to turn an electric switch, or anything of ...
— Miss Billy's Decision • Eleanor H. Porter
... raining, but I thought that anything would be preferable to the inside of my sitting-room. Then I felt that, whatever the cost, I must go in; and, twisting the key, I pushed heavily at the door, and entered, touching as I did so the electric switch. In the chair which stood before the writing-table in the middle of the room sat ...
— The Ghost - A Modern Fantasy • Arnold Bennett |
